MSI GT 627 unsuccessful installation in 7-STABLE and 8-BETA4

[George Mamalakis]

Dear all,

My question should maybe have be sent to some other fbsd list; if so, 
please someone instruct me where, and excuse me for my potential mistake.

Now to my question:

I just bought the MSI GT 627 Laptop, and I tried to install FreeBSD on 
it. First I tried with 8-BETA4 amd, then with 8-BETA4 i386, and lastly 
with 7.2 latest snapshot. All attempts have been unsuccessful, so I 
tried NetBSD 5.0.1 to see if it would install, and it did!

The kernel messages I got on all FOUR attempts (even in NetBSD, although 
it worked finally) was something like that (in the beginning) (NetBSD 
excerpt, since it is the only that booted, so I could copy-paste it from 
dmesg, but FreeBSD gave the exact same Error messages (a few numbers 
differ)):

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 00:08:07 UTC 2009
        
builds at b7.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/amd64/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 4095 MB
avail memory = 3954 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9a400 (45 entries)
Micro-Star International GT627       (Ver 1.000)
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a
cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 2: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a
cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 3: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 4: pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <MSI_NB,MEGABOOK,20090407>, AslId <MSFT,00000097>
ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] 
(0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321]
ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler 
[20080321]
ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
acpi0: fixed-feature power button present
timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
ACPI-Fast 24-bit timer
ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] 
(0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321]
ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler 
[20080321]
ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST
WMI1 (pnp0c14) at acpi0 not configured
....

where fbsd differed, was somewhere after identifying ad4 (the disk, 
which is WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0 01.01A1), where it stated:

acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config

and after that it kept on repeating the last message, only increasing 
the seconds to wait, until nothing more happened.

Does anyone know if this is something that will be fixed soon? I guess 
it has to do with MSI's ACPI or something like that.

Thank you all for your interest.

Regards,

mamalos.

-- 
George Mamalakis

IT Officer
Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Un. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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